The idea was that the images were links to the artists' internet servers and could change or disappear at any time.
Some of them eventually did disappear. We all moved on. We liked the idea. One could continue the landscape by
scrolling to the side, or down into the ground! At any moment the images might change. The images were also clic-able,
so you could visit the person behind the image.

No gravity! We invited small
images to float together and have kept them up floating.

The project took a leap with the Pipe Dream show.

The floating objects on the new pages are tennis balls from the
Citizen School Ball Pipe

(At the bottom are a sampling of both virtual and real. Scroll down,
way down!)

WINDOWS-The
Transparent Flower Show, 2001

http://www.valweb.org/windows/flowers.htm

"The Transparent Flower Show"..a visual experiment in working and
playing together. Basically, it is a transparent / translucent, photocopied images show with a floral theme. Scanned
flowers, painted flowers, e mailed, multiplied, reduced, enlarged, superimposed, floral in feeling!
Abstracts...patterns created with all the incoming images, combining them, coming together from all over the
country.

For the month of May, the show developed and filled a one hundred foot glass
wall at The Old Bridge Public Library. To show simultaneously in two places, we cloned the imagery and took half to
Newark, University of Medicine and Dentistry and half to the Old Bridge Library. Multiply! Add! Divide!

After that it moved to the South River Library where a piece was created by a
group of young people and we framed them all in a hoola hoop. Then the show moved to the Metuchen Public Library for
another month. Then on to the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Piscataway, NJ. Next it went to the Cork
Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NY. All the while, the show was posted to the internet so all the
participants can follow it along.

Phillip T. Baker, the Rock & Roll artist, worked all night and then went to Cambridge School in Kendall Park, NJ and worked some more.This piece was created by 19 little children in the
Head Start program, 3 and 4 yr olds, and measures about 48" across and is done on transparent,heavy
vinyl. Using non-toxic paints, the children took turns by Phillip's
side squishing their little fingers into the brightly colored paint and then creating an impression on the vinyl
surface. By noon we had achieved the effect seen here. Within a few days the photos were on the web site.

As the children slowly moved around concentrically, artist Judy Wray followed
with a heat gun drying the paint to prevent smearing.At
another table, children were coloring fish for the "Traveling Magnetic Show" which moves around towns
on the fire engine red Val VAN,the transportation for the Visual Arts League which doubles rolling road
show. The finished piece joined the "Flower Show" January
2001 at the Cork Gallery,downstairs from Avery Fisher Hall,
Lincoln Center, New York.

The children's flower piece is in the collection of work hanging at the South
Brunswick Library in the children's room and it is featured in "The Book of Hope", by Icelandic Poet,
Birgitta Jonsdottir. (The Dalai Lama and Lawrence Ferlenghetti are in the same book.)

The Internet was used throughout the project to teach many things all at once and add
mileage to what was a few hours experience.

As a tangent to a real one day show of art & food sampling in
local restaurants,

we began an Internet Food show of our own.

( A few tidbits )

Dian Sirken, Freehold, NJ

Lica's Freezer, Ansgard, Thomson

TOWN CLEANERSInternet Experimental Project, 2004

http://www.valweb.org/New_Bruns/sunrise.htm

Town Cleaners, been around forever.
The first design to come in. Ansgard Thomson, Alberta, Canada.

On these web pages began an Internet project using the boarded up
windows of vacant buildings (or partially vacant), experimenting with digital artists from around the world.

I would like to get people thinking creatively about ways to
use negative space in positive ways, bringing art out onto the street, creating an exciting interchange using
digital art which can easily involve high school seniors in computer art programs with digital artists from around
the world. Kind of a low budget, world school using negative space in a positive way.

Together we can impart integrity to a world which is so divided by
specialists, nobody having the scope of view or time to step back and create in a holistic way. Artists of all kinds
function as roving free radicals knitting good things together for its own sake.

Shankar Barua, New Delhi, India

Robert Rakita, Union, NJ

A Possibility: Art is Food Virtual Pillar Show, 2004

http://www.valweb.org/AP/artisfooditfeedsyou.htm

Another Project Begins-This is one small portions
of the front of a local supermarket in any town, our world. (Happens to be in my town!) The pillars are approx. 11' high
and 58" around. We are beginning a virtual food related show on these pillars, as it is a SUPER-market! This is a
take off on the Pipe Dreams show. We post designs coming in and add a link back to the artist sending. Designs accepted,
we will attempt to make the virtual materialize via the same idea we used with the digital designs sent for the Pipe
Dreams show.

The 2nd VAL Sponsored Digital show which is now a permanent installation at
the University of Medicine and Dentistry-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ

Poster design by Ansgard Thomson, Alberta, Ca.

Renata Spiazzi, La Jolla, Ca.

David Zeines, New York

Chuck Ferris, San Rafael, Ca.

"Headeye" Randy Roberts, Lisbon, Iowa

Dale Copeland,

Mt. Taranaki, New Zealand

Ed Fillmore, Rahway, NJ

Judy Wray, Jill Ferguson, David Camp,

Sheila Barrera & Doug the Mortician @ UMDNJ

Renata Spiazzi, La Jolla, Ca.

Jill Ferguson, Hatfield, Pa.

Warren Furman, Montrose, Pa.

Miriam Lozado-Jarvis, New Mexico

Michael Huffman, "In Progress", Mn.

Michelle Anderson, "In Progress" Mn.

Mina Blyly-Strauss, "In Progress", Mn.

Regina Mitchell, "In Progress" Mn.

David Bornoff, Hollywood, Ca.

Ansgard Thomson, Alberta, Ca.

Don Archer, Brooklyn, NY

Susan Holland, Washington State

Nancy Wood, Texas

Kent Oberheu, Berkeley, Ca.

Ursula Freer, New Mexico

Barbara Patera, Washington State

TOGO, New York

Vicky Culver, Howell Twp. NJ

Jay Zimmerman, Moors, Indiana

Below, past history and development.

"Scream", Bronze, 12" X 8" X 5", 1987

( The bronze period ! ) When I worked at the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, State of the Art
foundry in Mercerville, NJ, (1987-89), we were taught processes leading up to and including bronze casting. This
was a formative experience, as a cast could be endless variations in addition to a perfect and identical caste.
It was these variations that grabbed my attention.

Working along side serious and gifted sculptors from around the world was an educational experience in many
ways. We were all aware of the health risks and could see the effect that years or even months of working in an
unhealthy environment had on each other.

One of my most unforgettable experiences was when a sculptor whom I admired very much invited me to see a
storage area where his bronzes were kept. We drove over to an enormous old warehouse. Artists had created studio
space on all the floors. We went up the elevator and the door opened to an area of space maybe 3000 sq feet. In
the dusty, dim lighting we stood there silently seeing the hulking ton sculptures under gray tarpaulins, tied
down.

In those wordless moments many things were said. I knew that each month the rent had to be paid for space like
that. I knew the cost in money and labor to produce the sculptures. I knew the wonder of the sculptures
themselves. I saw dinosaurs. Something going extinct.

Ten years past between the bronze scream (above) and Tyeast's Piece (Below )

This image is a composite poster showing "Tyeast's Piece" in the upper right corner, Tyeast
herself, (center), and her friend Alex (lower left) along with a guest appearance from the shark and the turtle,
and Chuck the puppy. (Almost forgot! that's me, Judy Wray, with the red hat.)

All these creatures were involved in creating during the 10 years between bronze sculpture and producing "Tyeast's
Piece" and others below. (The shark leaped off Ginny Wick's ocean mural, if you pull up " Plastique-the
Ocean Show", you can see him again, where he is supposed to be, but he peels off and there is no stopping
him now. He goes anywhere he wants).

Chuck the puppy was around at the beginning when we made clay impressions of Tyeast and Alex fingerprints. When
it came time to pour the plaster in the clay impressions, the mold sprouted several leaks. White fluid gushed
out all over, and Chuck rushed in to lap it up. Tyeast saved the day by plugging leaks with one hand and fending
off Chuck with the other.

Now the turtle.
The turtle has always been around, it seems. From the time my dad would drive down country roads, bringing
turtles home, over and over again, in all shapes and sizes. The turtle is a symbol and a friend, of steadfast
persistence, showing up everywhere, even on doorsteps in far away places.

Now, on the side of our home, we call "The Art Yard" is the Giant Tortoise"

The Tortoise (The original design by Little Bob Duncan reproduced by Mark Nerys (16), Somerset, NJ

"Floating", 1992

"Floating" was a piece created in reverse logic, using negative space. The problem was digging out the 3-D
shadow of the fish images, then pouring in a solid to catch the ghost of the shape. The rest of the forms grew up
around them. Styrofoam puzzle pieces.

Frozen waves, covered in satin and velvets. The fish were cast in plaster and slathered
with melted crayon. It was light weight, except for the fish. The whole thing was beautiful, but highly breakable,
and so the next piece was created to be a more durable variation of a floating fish theme. It weighs a ton!

"Floating (Variation 2)", 1993

Four kinds of Exotic Wood, Imported from Venezuela, Cast Bronze

This piece sat around in closets and spare rooms for a long time. It is so ominously heavy, it is
uncomfortable to stand next to! Floating from a far, falling up close! But you don't take it anywhere. The easiest
place to send it, is into cyberspace, on this web page, where I have no trouble sending it anywhere, and the real
piece can sit safely in my living room.

1993
Judith Wray and Phyllis Castells

The fish was produced as a result of a class assignment to work with a partner

creating a piece with many parts.

When we were done, we were faced with mutual ownership.

All along we had to contend with our differences and afterwards too.

What developed was a kind of birth, a brain child born of us both.

What now? The project created a dilemma of ownership.

Something was "born" in that sculpture that neither of us recognized as our own.

We looked in wonder. The sum of the parts was more than a simple count of pieces.

The fish hangs by its head from a hay baling hook. It has a spine of large three-pronged fish hooks.

It goes together on the same principle as a Christmas tree. Each scale or group of scales going on inclusters
or individually. The head crowns it all. It is a fish kit. It could come in a box, and be differentevery
time it is assembled. The clay scales are raku fired.Raku is an ancient Japanese method of glazing. Each
clay piece is heated to a red hot state in a kiln.

The pieces are then removed with tongs and thrown into a pile of twigs and leaves (or sawdust)which bursts
into flames.Quickly, an airtight lid is clamped down. Flames consume the oxygen and create a vacuum.Minerals
from within the clay are drawn to the surface of the clay where they mix with the chemicals in the
applied raku glaze. Instantly, a chemical reaction begins to take place and crimsons and coppersand
turquoise and iridescent appear, depending on the minerals present and glaze used and timingand heat and
oxygen. There are a lot of variables, which produce an infinite variety of results.

Originally, each piece was 8 feet high by 4 ft wide, done on transparentheavy vinyl. They were designed to be seen from both sides wheneverpossible
to take advantage of the great expanses of glass throughout ourcommunities and
the changing light. They can be hung from suction cupsdirectly on the glass.
Over two thousand children have been touched bythis project, involving them in
production of actual pieces and tributariessince its inception.

Concept Behind the Ocean Show, 1997

Denizens of the deep, fish creatures,

ooze and murk and the beginnings

of things. Come with us on a voyage

of the mind and the heart in the shape

of a fish.Send us a fish image

of your own. We will multiply it,

reduce and expand it and take your

fish for the ride of its life.

As a group of loosely knit people

from all over, we can levitate great

works together barely trying.

There is magic in coming together.

J.Wray

(central image on left by Harriet Leonard, NY

"Plastique- The Ocean Show" - Concept - Judith Wray

(This first image (minus the poem), was created by
New York artist, Harriet Leonard before we even thought of the ocean show!)I
was trying to think of ways to involve people in any way imaginable.

Each piece created for this show measures 8 ft. H x 4 ft. W, and was done on heavy, transparent vinyl or
acetate in one case. The theme is the ocean and denizens of the deep. We have documented the show. There are
all together twenty-six artists and over 1000 children participating in this project. The pieces came from Alaska,
Georgia, New Mexico, Arizona, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, Louisiana and New Jersey. The show converged for the
first time in November/December 1995 in an exhibition at Lincoln Center's Cork Gallery, 65th Street &
Broadway, New York.

Our goal was to begin an experiment, opening doors and
gathering artists to see how far we could make this ocean roll. "Plastique-the Ocean Show" has
visited hospitals, libraries, senior centers, schools, and festivals.

At Broadway House For Continuing Care, CARE was not taken
of the show, and 11 of the pieces met with a mysterious, unexplained end. The surviving pieces from the show were
removed from Broadway House and put into storage.

The summer of 1999, Rebecca Brenowitz from the Human
Relations Council in East Brunswick, NJ called to invite us to come and see the 300 ft wide concrete wall in
the woods fronting the old Country Swim Club on Dutch Road, East Brunswick, NJ.

I saw in that bare expanse of concrete a chance for the
dreams to rise again and expand. Thirty seven sections 8' X 4', and another 2 sections each approx 25 ft wide for
murals. Each section framed by a natural frame of bricks. I got an idea: to create a customized fish brick and
pass them out randomly and easily absorb an additional 400 people in a community project which would touch many
people.

...and then we began e mailing Virtual Fish Bricks and
inviting digital artists around the world to paint the virtual fish brick in Photoshop and e mail it back to us to
join in a fish brick line up on the Internet.

We welcomed fish image designs via the Internet to be
reproduced at this end. Below are the works from the original show.

Daniel Noll

Scottsdale, Arizona

Judy Wray

East Brunswick, NJ

Joanne Guerra

Milltown, NJ

Mike Preston, Middlesex, NJ

Janet Simpson, North Port, NY

Carol Freeborn
East Brunswick, NJ

Pat San Soucie
Oregon

Joanne Guerra *2nd

Connie Cherniak
Staten Island, NY

DOJORO
North Port, NY

J.B. Brown
Plainfield, NJ

Steve Getlik
Connecticut

Michelle SantacrossSummit, NJ

Harriet Leonard
NY

Jaru Chang
NJ

Chris MacKinnon
Shark River, NJ

Silke Wouters
NJ

GinnyWick
Hillsborough, NJ

Celeste Fleming,NJ

Nancy SpeelmanHillsborough,NJ

Sue Schott, Pa

J.B. Brown,NJ

Bernard Axelrod
Jamesburg, NJ

Rob Laumbach
NJ

Luci Butler,
Florida

Ginny Wick
*2nd

Kim Wade, NJ
NJ

Kim Wade
*2nd

Mericelle, EB, NJ ( 11 yr. )

Cathy, EB, NJ

( 11 yr. )

"Little Bobby" Duncan

Rahway, NJ

Jo Dagon

Anchorage, Alaska

Nancy Speelman

(*3rd ) Teens ADTP Clinic

UMDNJ

Children at the Seafood Festival
Atlantic City, NJ

*2nd ( Nancy Speelman &
Karen Cicmansky), NJ

Students from Esther Schlossberg's classes

McKinley School, New Brunswick, NJ

The Fish Brick- The Alchemy of Art(Melding Pixels & Concrete)

Begun the summer of 2000, Using Both Real & Virtual Bricks

Three years ago we began painting this three hundred foot mural in a wooded section of East Brunswick, NJ.

The 5th and 6th piece were originally digital designs sent by e mail from Ursula Freer (left), New Mexico

and to the right, Ansgard Thomson, Alberta, Canada..We are looking for ways to involve people from all over.

The first brick we sent by e mail. The bricks are all a little different.

Mathew (10 yr ) NY

This top row, samples of the real concrete bricks.

Rebecca, (11 yr.) NJ

Maxine Gantois, Savignac, France

Below are all the Virtual Bricks which came in by e mail.

Birgitta Jonsdottir, Iceland

Mathew Cervenka, New York

Dima Yakovina,

St. Petersburg, Russia

Jill Ferguson, Hatfield, Pa.

Jill Ferguson, Hatfield, Pa.

Warren Furman, Montrose, Pa.

Warren Furman, Montrose, Pa.

Dima Yakovina, St. Petersburgh, Russia

Ansgard Thomson, Alberta, Canada.

Ansgard Thomson, Alberta, Canada.

We have involved about 260 people of all ages in the overall wall and the bricks surrounding the murals and the
Internet / virtual extension of this project. One artist can paint a 300 ft span of wall. Today we are challenged to
join with a world community to exercise our creativity to aid in global problem solving & working together
in new ways which leap boundaries of space and time. These projects are an exploration.

This Mural was on the fence at East Brunswick Foreign AutoSales, Harts Lane, East Brunswick, NJ. 100 feet of fence plus a beetle sliced in half, nudged the mural into reality. We took a digital
photo of the cut in half beetle, de-saturated the color and turned it into a coloring book line drawing. We
duplicated it 300 times and passed it out randomly and to Joyce Kilmer School in Milltown, Hammorsjold in East
Brunswick and McKinley School in New Brunswick, (all in NJ. ) Color the VW we said! We received 267 responses. Two
years after the project began, we got an envelope in the mail Postmarked "Indonesia". Inside was a
colored Volkswagen by an artist in Indonesia we came to know as "Samuel".

Below: A few of the Volkswagon Beetles which rolled in to the Cyber
Gallery.

The First Volkswagen which we photocopies 300 times and passed out to schools and random others.

Esther Schlossberg, (The teacher at Mckinley School, New Brunswick, NJ

whose class gave us 45 painted hubcaps in a blitz.) Esther's beetle was the first design to arrive by e mail.

Holly Dey, Neptune, NJ

Nancy Speelman, Hillsborough, NJ

Samuel

Random people and students from 3 schools sent colorings for the Volkswagen. They
were told that one design would be selected to be reproduced on the real half a beetle. A selection was made and the
design was reproduced on the car. Chris MacKinnon, Shark River, NJ, created the "Wings" for the beetle and
the Beetle was hoisted into position where it sat on top of the fence as seen in the picture.. For six months
after the beetle was completed it sat on top of the mural on Harts Lane. After that, the flying beetle went to the
Cork gallery, downstairs from Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center as part of the show "The Hub-With Magnetic
Connections".

We thought of another idea, (as we had all these wonderful designs), how everybody
could win. All the beetle designs were laminated and spray glued to magnetic material and became

"the Traveling Magnetic Show"

ridingaround on the fire engine red Val Van for next few years.

Surprising children at traffic lights!

The ride by art show!

We wanted to create a show of work that stuck together, literally and
figuratively. The Traveling Magnetic Show rides on the VALVAN. Artists, children ..an open invitation
extends to create a magnetic piece for the van. The show changes, moves around on the body of the van. When
it is not on the van, it has been seen on refrigerator doors. December '98 The Hub-With Magnetic Connections
visited the Cork Gallery downstairs from Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NY and again in the New
Brunswick Food Show, summer of2002.

The Volkswagen Beetles Displayed on a Collection of Refrigerator Doors at
Quietude Sculpture Gardens

We spent months collecting discarded refrigerator doors of all kinds so we would have a
place to display all the Volkswagen designs.

We took the doors to the Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center along with the hubcap show and also
to the Quietude Sculpture Garden in East Brunswick, NJ.

About the artists: "Little Bobby" Duncan, (Jamesburg, NJ) did the red car and
the green car. Duncan has painted his way across the country on denim jackets, hats, sneakers, walls, giant 60
foot Koala bears, you name it, if it stands still long enough, Duncan will paint it.

Judy Wray created the overall design and orchestrated the idea, pulling artists and
students together for the summer. Dewight Braithwaite (12), Justin Price (7), and Richard Campbell (12), showed up
every day for a week painting in the background.

We have a pipe sculpture which is a serpent in PVC pipes strung through the
center with chain and anchored with a boulder.

Robert Rakita, Union, NJ

We have a Pipe from a famous artist HOOP, "King of Art", Clifton, NJ

"Little Bob" Duncan (about as famous) has created an elephant god pipe (right)

(left) Pipe Blond, Harry & Edie Cohen, East Brunswick, NJ

Jean Pierre and Maxine Gantois sent "The Tree of Knowledge"

Savignac, France

(center)

Tihamer Binner, Somerset, NJ

Maxine & Jean Pierre Gantois, Savignac, France

Lyka Cox,Bayville, NJ

Lauren Curtis, Somerset, NJ

Marquita Lowe;

Nissa Aitkins;

Thomas Leal "In Progress", Mn.

Amber Shepherd, Somerset, NJ

Nancy Woods, Texas

Roslyn Rose, Hoboken, NJ

Lisa Rejowski

Monroe, NJ

Mathew Cervenka

New York City

Glen Buchholz, East Brunswick, NJ

We are continuing to pass out pipes and encouraging others to
find their own.....we will attempt to move the show any way we can......an experiment in
working and playing together where we post it all to the Internet.

This can be pretty easy or difficult.....it can be as easy as having a small
PVC section of pipe sitting on a desk for a few months and asking people to
sign when they come into the office.....(or it can be more creative...) We are
looking to draw out a creativity untapped.....a collective creativity.

...To begin a dream together

from all our different corners of the world

linking the dreamers.

Judy Wray

Two of the pipes in the show involve many students. ( left ) The Rubber Hand Pipe.

( right ) The Citizen School, BALL PIPE

Simple Step by Step Development of 1 pipe from the PIPE DREAMS show.

The Rubber Hand Pipe

400 hands

This is the closest pipe to being local artist's, Judy Wray's. Judy is the
conceptualist for the Pipe Dreams show in New Jersey. 400 children / teens worked on this pipe in
three stages.

Stage 1.

Middlesex County Teen Artsbrought the teens together.

Artist, Little Bob Duncanbegan the pipe,working with Judy Wray and 3 schools from Perth Amboy as part of Teen Arts at
Middlesex County College.

Duncandrilled about 150 holes in the top portion of the pipe.
Atilla Soltez (mechanic), welded 3 tire rims for a base. So where is Judy? ..the idea was in her head and
she managed to convey it with as much clarity and enthusiasm as could be mustered, pulling together 12 ft
pipe, tire rims, rubber gloves and people, to converge and keep on running.

Stage 2

The Rubber Hand Pipe Continues with Career Day and 300 students atRobert N.
Wilentz School, Perth Amboy, NJ

Stage 3.

The Rubber Hand Pipe continues. For two days Laurel Van Leer (Girl Scout Leader),
invited neighbors to color multi-colored surgical gloves with permanent magic markers. After the coloring,
the gloves got stuffed and a knot tied. Then the knotted end was glued into one of the holes drilled near
the top of the pipe or slipped into bands running around the lower half. Layer on layer the pipe took shape.

The man behind the rubber gloves - Douglass MacGregor,
the mortician at University of Medicine and Dentistry-RWJMS- Douglass has had a hand in projects with
visiting artists as far away as New Zealand and often has given us a helping hand in unusual ways.